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Re: Exceptions for certain files in ELPA?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Exceptions for certain files in ELPA?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:56:33 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> 1. mmm-rpm.el. It's ~20 lines, and you could consider its contents to be
> "configuration" instead of a program. Nevertheless, it's all been written by
> the same guy who never done copyright assignment, so it doesn't seem fair to
> write "Copyright by Free Software Foundation" on top of it.

This can be counted as "trivial" enough not to require copyright
paperwork, indeed.

> 2. mmm-noweb.el. It's much bigger, and reportedly still used by some
> people. Unfortunately, the author has passed away 7 years ago, so no real
> chance of copyright assignment.
>
> They are not very essential (we could release one or both separately), but
> have them to be exceptions would make my life simpler.

I wouldn't mind making an exception for this one.


        Stefan




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